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Latvia

Capital city — Riga

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Country-profile

Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

8.6 % (294)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45.

Percentage of untried female prisoners

22.1 % (65)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45.

Percentage of foreign female prisoners

2.4 % (7)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45.

Mothers are allowed to keep their children with them

yes, until 4 years old

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 32.

Minors

Minimum age of imprisonment for minors

14 years old

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 41.

Incarcerated minors

0.5 %

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01/01/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

1.9 % (65)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 62.

People serving a life sentence

2.5 % (61)
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 53.

Percentage of untried prisoners

28.6 % (949)
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04/2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number and percentage of elderly prisoners

Data not disclosed

(≥ 65 years)

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 42.

Death penalty is abolished

yes, since 2012